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Show o Venceremos Winter 1997 after a fire-bombing and a Turkish grandmother and her grandchil- dren died. He left the Nazi move- ment. However, the movement wouldn't let him quit. They were after him and tried to kill him. In Fuehrer X, he said that the neoNazi movement is not targeting Jews or Blacks. They're targeting immigrants. We know that the headquarters of the Nazi move- ment is not in Germany. It's here in the United States. 1 believe 1t's in Montana. Marcial: A lot of the literature sent to Enrope comes from the United States. - Huerta: In fact, it's illegal to print any kind of Nazi literature 1n Germany, but Americans understand what's going on. So, all of this hatred against immigrants 1s being created to keep us from the real issues. Where's our money going? Government gives $500 billion to the Defense . Department. We have no enemies. Government also gives $500 bil- lion to bail out the Savings and Loans because of all the bad deals that the real estate companies and the banks made. Marcial: This is the truth. The government uses voiceless people, people who esther have hardly any rights or their rights are being stripped away. The government blames their problems on voiceless people. Why not? If they have to give $500 billion to these Savings and Loams and the same amount to pay Defense Department bills, why don't they just blame 1t on the immigrants for taking jobs away from Americans. There's a misconception that immigrants are feeding off of the so-called average American. A study was conducted in Californza, where $95 million was paid in taxes. They took what immigrants used for so-called emergency aid — $5 million. Huerta: l testified in many congressional hearings in Washington. The majority of the money that went to immigrants went to the refugee programs. It went to peo- ple who were escaping war — people from Cambodia, from Laos, from Vietnam. Large amounts of money went to the Koreans, the Russia and And on top of that, they have spe- cial loan programs for them where they can get money to start their businesses. People say, “Well, gee, these people just got here and they already have a : business. E They have 3% loans that they get from the government to start their businesses. No Mexican immigrants ever got those loans and no Guatemalan immigrants or El Salvadoran immigrants ever got that kind of backing in terms of being able to survive in this country. Marcial: Most people. flee their — countries and come to the United States because they're fleermg political persecution. They're fleeing — they don't have 30bs. They're fleerng to support their families because their govern- ments them as slaves. So, people in our country have to understand that we have to have a major healing. Every sing day, people should say, “Thank you, Native Americans, for the ground that Pm walking on. "Native Americans have the highest poverty rate, the highest suicide rate, and the highest infant mortality rate. Right down the line, they're at the bottom of everything. So, the arrogance of these people who say to me, “Well, you know, 'm here, 'm a legal immigrant. "When Pat Buchanan and David Duke and Pete Wilson's forefathers landed in this country, it was already a brown country. It's always was a brown country. The Republican convention was 98% white. This is not the real face of America. People have to cannot support or cannot establish or create jobs for these people in their country. The thing 1s that here in the United States — or the so-called United States — 11 of those states once were a part of Mexico. If anyone has a right to be here, it's the Mexican). Huerta: It's not just Mexicans. These are the indigenous peoples of the continent. We always say, “Hey, we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us. ”In fact, the land that we're sitting on right now belongs to Native Americans and they've never been paid for this land. The people that created the wealth of the country never had the reparations paid to them for their genocide or for using understand that our, country - 1s diverse. Seventy-five percent of the world is of color. People need a reality check. Stop and look at the corporations. We talked about street crimes. Street crime costs the country $4 billion, corporate crime costs the country $400 billion. There is no “Three Strikes and You're Out” for corporations. They can violate the laws as many times as they want and still get the government contracts. Marcial: There are a lot of things that people don't understand. 1 believe it's the education and political systems that are at fault. The immigrants actually built the southwest. Huerta: Immigrants built the whole country. I mean the whole country was built by immigrants, right? Marcial: Ler's scale 3t down to the Mexican immigrants who helped buzld tbe railroads in the Southwest, and who also do most of the agricultural work. a Huerta: It's true, but across the whole country, it was immigrants who always did the work and who were never respected. Each new more in taxes than what they receive 1n services. : Marcial: Have you enjoyed. your stay in Salt Lake? Huerta: lt was wonderful because I was with all the right people. I just want to remind people to please visit-your grocers and tell them that we want them to support the strawberry workers” right to have a union, be free from sexual harassment, and to have sanitary conditions in the field. We're not boycotting strawberries yet. It's a strawberry alert. But if the public can do that for us, it would really help us a lot. Marcial: Boycott strawberries. Boycott grapes. Huerta: No. We're not boycotting strawberries yet. Marcial: Yow're not boycottimg strawberries yet but well see what happens. Huerta: Yeah, we'll see what happens down the line. We're havinga big march on April 23rd of next year in Watsonville, California and would like to have people join. We're going to have a giant super march in Watsonville wave of immigrants, whether they were- Irish or Italianms or' whatever, were always treated with disrespect. Now we have the newest waves of immigrants. When you think about it, the immigrants from Central America are escaping the bombs that we dropped on them in Guatemala and El Salvador. We e... y. € destroyed those countries. Now in Mexico we have NAFTA? and we'd like to invite people to NAFTA — has come and join us. We'll send you put thousands notices so you can tell people. of people off Marcial: 1 marched with yon in their farms. Los Angeles — Chicano Moratorium Theyite not March — the 25tb. going to die. Huerta: That's when we did the Right now, the Freedom Bus Tour. We visited 22 Taraumara campuses. Jesse Jackson, myself, Indians mo Patricia Ireland and many labor Chihuahua are leaders have been invoking the. SERA NINO People out “names of the martyrs. We have the three martyrs who were killed in there are starvMississippi in 1964. Two were ing. No person Jewish white men and one was an in their right African-American male — they mind is going were Schwerner, Goodman and to sit there and Chaney— and they were killed starve. They're registering voters 1m Mississippi. going to go Then we have Martin Luther King, where they can Malcolm X and Truman Salazar. find food and govern-' Truman Salazar was killed in the our first moratorium with three brown ment has a big berets who were killed by the Los responsibility Angeles Police Department. because we're Marcial: How about the Silver the ones that * Dollar Lounge? passed NAFTA Huerta: Right. The Silver and we're the Dollar Lounge. These were the ones that put people who died for affirmative them out of action. So, again, if you have relawork. tives or friends in California, call Marcial: The them and say please get out there biggest misconception out there 15 that and work against Proposition 209. farm workers, migrant workers, and You can send a check — we need the undocumented workers do not cheat. money desperately. We've already They support themselves. They pay had a drop in the polls from 80% taxes. They work. There's no way to 46% because of the bus trip that they're wailing on the system. we did with Jesse Jackson? But Huerta: That's right. Every we need to be able to afford paid time they buy a gallon of gas or a media. We haven't had any paid loaf of bread, they pay taxes. One media. The other side has a paid misconception is that all farm media office. workers are undocumented. That's Marcial: Thank you for meeting simply not true. The vast majority with me today. We will be glad to proof farm workers are legal residents vide media coverage of any information and citizens of these United States. you send us. Let me tell you, all of the residents — people who have a full residenRemember! Boycott California cy status and also those who are grapes! undocumented —pay five times MT from Iran and Iraq. After the war we had in Iraq, there were several thousand Iraqis that were brought into the United States and I for one don't begrudge any of it. 1 think it's great. I think this is what this country is about. Another thing, when these immigrants arrive here — not the people from Guatemala or El Salvador or from Mexico — but the others just mentioned — what we call “refugees” — they get here and they have their residency card in hand. They don't have to wait. They are immediately eligible for the assistance programs. rated. They want to keep us ignorant. And this whole thing about Latino-bashing ties in with what's happening in Nazi Germany — mean the Nazi party. I would like to recommend that people read the book, Fuehrer X where they this young fellow belonged to the Nazi movement in Germany. He quit from ATT rations who control the advertising. They control what is published in those newspapers. So, tbe questions 15: For the average consumerhwatcher, does the media build a hysteria into immigrant bashing? : Huerta: Sure. It's like developing a climate of fear so that people are afraid of each other and don't talk to each other. That's what they want. They want to keep us sepa- people mM from the Soviet Union, even people TO Cubans, are controlled by huge, massive corpo- - 5 4 1FM| Lita Community Radio Call 363-1818 for a program guide today. KRCL airs more than 75 different programs. Call 363-1818 for a complimentary program guide today. 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